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" With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my rest?" — Mighty Seaman, this is he Was great by land as thou by sea. Thine island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world... "
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century: Wellington, Canning, Stephenson ... - Page 186
by James Richard Joy - 1902 - 260 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 181

1895 - 588 pages
...1 Who is he that cometh, like an honoured guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...Seaman, this is he Was great by land as thou by sea." • •••»* Yet, in spite of his appreciation of the magnificent poetry of this ode, there is...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 36

American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, * London : Moxon, 1862. With a nation weeping, and breaking on my rest ? Mighty seaman, this is he Was great by land as thou by pea. Thine island loves thec well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. Now,...
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The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volume 1

C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...cometh like an honour'd gnest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, VOL. I. 2 7. With a nation weeping and breaking on my rest ? Mighty seaman, this is he Was great by land, as tbou by sea. Thine Island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since the world began....
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...song. 6. Who is he that cometh like an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...thee the greatest soldier comes ; .» For this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee ; For this is England's greatest son, He...
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Maud, and Other Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 1856 - 176 pages
...6. Who is he that cometh like .an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...To thee the greatest soldier comes ; For this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee ; For this is England's greatest son, He...
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Maud ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 pages
...6. Who is he that cometh, like an honour'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...To thee the greatest soldier comes ; For this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee ; For this is England's greatest son, He...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 2; Volume 110

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1859 - 856 pages
...great mariner who can compete with Nelson for the honour which our lauréat assigna to him : — " Thine island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since the world began." At least, he was the Nelson of his time. The portraits which have come down to us...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 31; Volume 104

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1911 - 890 pages
...interpreters of any deep and enduring sentiment, and Tennyson's words about Nelson are true to-day : Thine Island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. George Meredith's lines on Nelson, too, are both fine and true : He leads ! We hear our seaman's call,...
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Poems of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...6. Who is he that cometh, like an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...Was great by land as thou by sea. Thine island loves thec well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. Now, to the roll of muffled...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...song. & Who is he that cometh, like an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...To thee the greatest soldier comes ; For this is he ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 14r, Was great by land as thou by sea ; His foes were thine...
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